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Sara Costa; Laura Soledad Norton; Sabine Pirchio – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Grades are the universal tool for measuring students' performance at school. However, other competency-based evaluation methods have shown to have a stronger impact on the learning quality. We investigated how different methods are collectively represented and discursively constructed among students at an Italian high school class. Thematic…
Descriptors: High Schools, Foreign Countries, Grades (Scholastic), Competency Based Education
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Lara Milan; Sally M. Reis; Sukru Murad Cebeci; Paola Maraschi – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2024
In this article, we describe the positive outcomes emerging from a three-year implementation of the Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM) in the first Italian implementation of the model. Both students and teachers benefitted from the positive experience of the SEM educational approaches to talent development which provides an educational experience…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gifted Education, Enrichment Activities, Talent Development
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Persano Adorno, Dominique; Mallahnia, Tahereh; Koch, Volker; Zailskaite-Jakšte, Ligita; Ostreika, Armantas; Urbaityte, Aušra; Punys, Vytenis; Pizzolato, Nicola – Education Sciences, 2021
In this contribution, we present the BioS4You project and analyse the results obtained in the first 18 months of its activity. The "Bio-Inspired STEM topics for engaging young generations" (BioS4You) Erasmus+ KA2 Innovation project aims to bridge the gap between STEM national curricula (which include Science, Technology, Engineering, and…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Learner Engagement, Program Effectiveness, Age Groups
Bocconi, Stefania; Lightfoot, Michael – European Training Foundation, 2021
The purpose of this Joint Research Centre and European Training Foundation (JRC-ETF) joint report is to propose a methodology for the scaling up of SELFIE on the basis of several case studies from EU Member States and South Eastern European countries. Designed to support schools in using digital technologies for teaching and learning effectively,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Innovation, Educational Technology, Technology Integration
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Balenzano, Caterina; Moro, Giuseppe; Cassibba, Rosalinda – Research on Social Work Practice, 2019
Purpose: The article describes an evaluation study to test the effectiveness of "Storie in gioco" project (Stories in Play, Storie in gioco [SIG]), a dropout prevention intervention aimed to prevent early school leaving (ESL) in at risk students. Method: The research used a mixed-method approach: in the quantitative phase, a two-group…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Intervention, Dropouts, At Risk Students
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Michele Capurso; John L. Dennis; Luciana Pagano Salmi; Cristina Parrino; Claudia Mazzeschi – Continuity in Education, 2020
The isolation related to the COVID-19 pandemic is causing both physical and mental health concerns for children worldwide. When the pandemic is over, schools and kindergartens represent a crucial context that can play an important role in promoting young people's well-being. This paper presents a school re-entry program aimed at creating an arena…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Reentry Students, Elementary School Students
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Hauck, Mirjam, Ed.; Müller-Hartmann, Andreas, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2020
The Evaluating and Upscaling Telecollaborative Teacher Education (EVALUATE) project was a European policy experiment funded by Erasmus+ between 2017 and 2019. The EVALUATE consortium trained teacher trainers and organised virtual exchanges which involved over 1,000 student teachers at over 34 initial teacher education institutions in Europe and…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Computer Simulation
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Cinganotto, Letizia – Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2016
CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) was introduced in the Italian school system in 2003 through a Reform Law, which made it mandatory for upper secondary schools. This paper is aimed at describing the most important steps of this innovation, with the relevant implications for policymakers, teachers and students. Italy's CLIL mandate is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Integrated Activities, Educational Change